AD 116

"116 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 116 BC.

Year 116 (CXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lamia and Vetus (or, less frequently, year 869 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 116 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

116 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	116 CXVI
Ab urbe condita	869
Assyrian calendar	4866
Balinese saka calendar	37–38
Bengali calendar	−478 – −477
Berber calendar	1066
Buddhist calendar	660
Burmese calendar	−522
Byzantine calendar	5624–5625
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2813 or 2606     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2814 or 2607
Coptic calendar	−168 – −167
Discordian calendar	1282
Ethiopian calendar	108–109
Hebrew calendar	3876–3877
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	172–173
- Shaka Samvat	37–38
- Kali Yuga	3216–3217
Holocene calendar	10116
Iranian calendar	506 BP – 505 BP
Islamic calendar	522 BH – 521 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	116 CXVI
Korean calendar	2449
Minguo calendar	1796 before ROC 民前1796年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1352
Seleucid era	427/428 AG
Thai solar calendar	658–659
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) 242 or −139 or −911     — to — མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 243 or −138 or −910

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Trajan completes his invasion of Parthia by capturing the cities of Seleucia, Babylon, Ctesiphon and Susa, marking the high-water mark of the Roman Empire's eastern expansion.
• Trajan makes Syria a province of Rome and crosses the Tigris to annex Adiabene. He proceeds with his army to the Persian Gulf and conquers territory that becomes the province of Parthia.
• Trajan removes Osroes I as king of Parthia, and appoints his son Parthamaspates in his place. Parthamaspates romanizes his name to Parthicus.
• Trajan sends two expeditionary forces. One, consisting of elements of Legio III Cyrenaica, to suppress the revolt in Judea and the other Legio VII Claudia to restore order on Cyprus.
• In summer, rebellious movement emerges in Mesopotamia against Roman occupation. General Lusius Quietus is sent by Trajan to suppress the uprisings, recovering Nisibis, besieging and sacking Edessa, and waging war against local Jews
• Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.
• Quintus Marcius Turbo sails to Alexandria and defeats Jewish insurgents in several pitched battles.

Births

• Liang Na, wife of Shun of Han (d. 150)^[1]

Deaths

• March 30 – Quirinus of Neuss, Roman Christian martyr according to Roman Catholic tradition
• Abgar VII, ruler of Osroene (approximate date)
• Ban Zhao, female Chinese historian (b. AD 49)
• Philopappos, prince of Commagene (b. AD 65)
• Zacchaeus of Jerusalem, bishop of Jerusalem